press releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 2, 2019) – In response to the murderous attacks at the Poway Synagogue in California and the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pennsylvania, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) introduced legislation to ensure that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provides state and local law enforcement...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 2, 2019) - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) reintroduced legislation to authorize an Energy Technology Maturation Program at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to facilitate successful commercialization of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 1, 2019) – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai requesting in-person technical assistance workshops to promote broadband funding for tribal and rural communities in New Mexico. “As you know, high-speed broadband is key to a thriving...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the passing of former Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher. “When I began my service in the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher quickly became one of my biggest role models. I still think about lessons I learned under her visionary...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 30, 2019) – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined U.S. Representative Deb Haaland’s (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) Military Housing Oversight and Service Member Protection Act, a comprehensive bill to address a series of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 26, 2019) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the passing of former Congressman and Secretary of the Interior Manuel Luján, Jr. "During his decades of service in the House of Representatives and at the Department of the Interior, Manuel Luján never stopped fighting for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 26, 2019) - Following last week's public release of a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, delivers this week's Weekly Democratic Address. In the address, Heinrich explains why Congress needs to...

SANTA FE, N.M. – On Friday, April 26, from 9 to 9:45 a.m., U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will be in Santa Fe to host a discussion on climate change with students at the Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences on the need–as the generation who will have no choice but to deal with the consequences of this...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – On Thursday, April 25, from 11:15 a.m. to 12 p.m., U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will read to a group of preschoolers t0 celebrate El Día de los Niños at Los Griegos Public Library in Albuquerque. El Día de los Niños is a nationally recognized initiative that emphasizes the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 23, 2019) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined 40 of his colleagues on a bipartisan letter urging increased funding for the Section 4 Capacity Building program. The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Section 4 Program works with local community development organizations to improve...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement in response to reports of a militia group illegally detaining migrant families and asylum seekers at the border in New Mexico: “Reports of a militia group illegally operating in New Mexico...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 18, 2019) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, made the following statement after Attorney General William Barr’s press conference in advance of the release of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report:  "We have gotten to the point where we are...

Las Cruces, N.M. - In an ongoing effort to provide top-notch constituent service, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich's (D-N.M.) staff will hold Mobile Office Hours on Friday, April 19 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Senior Center in Reserve. Staff will be on hand to assist residents who have questions regarding Social Security benefits, Medicare,...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., today sent a letter to the Trump administration urging the declassification of information relating to Attorney General William Barr.  The letter, addressed to National Security Advisor John Bolton and the Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, is a...

WASHINGTON -- Ahead of Tax Day and the IRS Commissioner’s annual appearance before the Senate and House, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, along with 46 Senate Democrats, introduced theWorking Families Tax Relief Act.   At a time when wages are stagnant and the cost of childcare has exploded,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 11, 2019) – This week, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined a bipartisan group of Senators to introduce the Land and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, along with U.S. Representative Xochitl Torres Small, announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development has awarded $7,892,462 in funding to help upgrade and improve rural water infrastructure in the City of Socorro. The award, which was funded through...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 11, 2019) - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced the bipartisan Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act of 2019 to establish an investment tax credit (ITC) for business and home use of energy storage. “I...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Pat Roberts (R-Kans.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Jerry Moran (R-Kans.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Joe Manchin (D-W. VA.), Dick Durbin (D- Ill.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) are calling...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall and U.S. Representative Deb Haaland, along with Senator Martin Heinrich and Representatives Ben Ray Luján, Assistant Speaker of the House, and Xochitl Torres Small, introduced bipartisan legislation to prohibit school “lunch...